From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, October 26, 2014 2:10:52 AM UTC-4, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
   > On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 22:58:12 -0700 (PDT), William Vetter   
   >  wrote in   
   >    
   > in rec.arts.sf.composition:   
   >   
   > > On Sunday, October 26, 2014 12:53:45 AM UTC-4, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
   > > The other is a   
   >   
   > >> former student who had black hair and the funniest name I   
   > >> ever encountered in a class: Ivan Ho.   
   >   
   > > It's not so unusual.  A lot of Asians give their children first   
   > > names of Catholic saints.  I've met a couple of Chinese Stanislauses.   
   >   
   > I don't know whether this particular combination of forename   
   > and surname is unusual or not, but it's very funny, and NOT   
   > because it's Russo-Chinese.  Think about it.   
   >   
   You telling me it's _Ivanhoe_, or "I wanna whore"?   
      
   I was in a department where there was a guy named Uck Yu, and some people   
   thought it was funny.  People said when some sales rep asked him for a   
   shipping address, and he said his name, the phone rep would always hang up.   
      
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